Re: Is it time to kill support for very old servers?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is it time to kill support for very old servers?
Date: 2017-10-11 13:28:34
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaF0HiC6O=juxOPMpHK3LGC6uVAuMZ=ppouS7w64D55pA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I'm actually inclined not to, and keep this as a undocumented debugging
> option. Limiting the use of this option to people willing to read the
> code seems like a good idea to me.

-1. I use the documentation to find things, even though I am a
developer, and I don't think hiding things from users is a good idea
anyway. We can say that we recommend against using the option and
that it's just for testing, but it should be documented anyway.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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